Faith, Media and Culture

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Rough seas ahead? Noah may be riding an opening weekend box office wave that netted $44 million floats to top of box office but a CinemaScore survey of audience members resulted in a very-tepid average score of C. That score pretty much matches my…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. A buggy ride down Memory Lane. Tomorrow (Sunday 3/30) INSP will air a special 12-hour marathon to commemorate the 40th Anniversary of NBC’s airing of the two-hour pilot movie for Little House on the Prairie (on March 30. 1974). The pilot, of course, would…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Synopsis (from the film’s website): Russell Crowe stars as Noah in the film inspired by the epic story of courage, sacrifice and hope. Directed by visionary filmmaker Darren Aronofsky. Not really a Bible movie. A posting at The Wrap about this weekend’s box office…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. All the Buzz! I caught this on YouTube from musician/songwriter Tom Fletcher of the British pop group McFly. The video cleverly and sweetly chronicles the pregnancy of his wife Giovanna and the March 13th of their son Buzz Michelangelo Fletcher. As of this writing, it…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Beyond box office success. Despite opening in fewer than 800 theaters, the Pure Flix production of raked in 9.2 million smackers in its opening weekend — good enough to place an impressive #4 on the B.O. — as, yet again, Hollywood finds itself stunned…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. The Redemption of Henry Myers airs tonight (3/23) @ 9:00 PM ET on The Hallmark Movie Channel. Cast: Drew Water, Erin Bethea, Jaden Roberts, Ezra Proch; Directed by Clayton Miller; Written by Clayton Miller, Charlie Shahnaian and Chris Vanderkaay; Produced by Bobby Downes and…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. God’s Not Dead opens in theaters across the country today 3/31. Cast: Kevin Sorbo, Shane Harper, David A.R. White, Dean Cain, Willie & Korie Robertson, Benjamin Onyango, Paul Kwo, Hadeel Sittu, Cory Oliver and Newsboys (Michael Tait, Jody Davis, Jeff Frankenstein, Duncan Phillips) Synopsis…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. The man behind Pure Flix. David A.R. White may be the world’s most-unlikely movie mogul.  Raised in a small farming community just outside of Dodge City, Kansas (home of Gunsmoke‘s Marshal Matt Dillon, as I recall), his father was a pastor in a Mennonite…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. Continuing our countdown to Friday’s theatrical premiere of God’s Not Dead (3/21). Yesterday, Shane Harper (Disney’s Good Luck Charlie) talked about his role as the earnest young college student forced to defend his faith through classroom debates that pit him against his atheist philosophy…

Here’s today’s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. From “Luck” to “God”. Its YouTube channel has scored over a million and a half hits. Now, God’s Not Dead, the Pure Flix movie inspired by the book of the same name by Rice Broocks is scheduled to open this Friday (5/21). While it…

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